I finally got the **** thing to boot every time without falling over sideways!
This is a step!
The only problem is, it's still single-user - I still can't get a DZ-11 to work.
I don't think I ever will - I was told you have to kill a 12-pack to get one
to work, and I'm not old enough to buy beer. :)
Anyway, I found an interesting goody in the spare 44 - It's a hex-height
board I recognised from the VAX 750 manual I have. It has 2 50-pin
cables going off to a 16-port EIA distribution panel. It appears to be a DMA
peripheral, it has CA1 and CB1 going off into logic, so I made a DMA slot for
it after the UDA50 in the 2nd BA-11. So, I bring up RSTS - And here's the
result:
Option: HARDWR LIST
Name Address Vector Comments
TT0: 177560 060
RU0: 172150 310 Units: 0(RA81)
KL0: 176510 300 <<< What is that?
KW11L 177546 100
SR 177570 Volatile
DR 177570
Hertz = 60.
Other: FPU, 22-Bit Addressing, Data Space, Cache
-------------------- AFTER THE INSERTION OF THE MODULE -------------------
Option: HARDWR LIST
Name Address Vector Comments
TT0: 177560 060
RU0: 172510 310 Units: 0(RA81)
KL0: 176510 300
DM0: 170500 440 DH0
KW11L 177546 100
SR 177570 Volatile
DR 177570
Herts = 60.
Other: FPU, 22-Bit Addressing, Data Space, Cache
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But when I say START:
KB9:KB24 disabled - no DH0: controller
Does that mean it's broken, or is the Monitor need rebuilt?
Oh, and Tim: The tape drives appear to handle 1600 BPI, but the controllers
don't. I'm gonna dig out my Emulex stuff and see if any of them will handle
this tape.
And wasn't DM0: a disk controller? Am I supposed to reset the CSRs to this?
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There is no identifiers on the board. It doesn look like a DEC job though.
DH11! I have one of those! It's in a bizarre 9-slot backplane!
So, I set this tningie and the DZ11 in a backplane together, and
I have 16 ports? It DH looks fairly bizarre, it has all sorta funny
half-height boards and other bizarrities. But a single-user timesharing
installation is a contradiction in terms :)
Tape drive was OEM. So was the card. I think Caterpillar made both.
The card emulates a TM: drive, the drive is a standard Pertec-unformatted
interface with a NRZI/PE switch on it.
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Well, the way this was set, there was this board ina DMA slot right after
the memory, and the next backplane in the line was the DH.
I don't have the board in front of me now, I'll have to go see it later today.
There was 2 50-pin cables from it to a distribution board. Then there was
the DH11, and it had 2 30 or 40 pin cables off it to nothing. They were just
hanging in there. This board looks significantly newer than the DH does, so
chances are good it was added later. Maybe it was a second DH?
Can I run map on a 44? You know, the little thing in the 11/x3 (X=>2)
ROMs that lets you see what addresses are in use?
I'd have to deposit it in ram, I think - do you know what I'm talking about?
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OK, I think this IS a clone board. There's 4 switch packs.
2 of them are 4 digits, and 2 are 3 digits.
There's 16 8327 chips, I think thos were UARTs.
6 ROMs of some sort, 2 chips marked AMD AM2901BPC.
Wait, here's 2 more dip switch packs, 3 digits.
The board says ACT 10104G6 on the back.
Dip switched decode as follows:
S1: 11110111
S2: 11011111
S3: 0101110011
S4: 1000000011
S5: 10010001
S6: 00001001
Any ideas?
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How about info(a)able.com?
Go look at their page - They STILL sell those!
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But then why's there 2 sets of CSR and vector switches?
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